| US 7,509,042 B2 | ||
| Digital camera, image capture method, and image capture control program | ||
| Keiichi Mori, Tokyo (Japan); Sumito Yoshikawa, Kanagawa (Japan); and Kenichi Nakajima, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 21, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/313,464. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-220752 (JP), filed on Jul. 29, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0025718 A1, Feb. 01, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G03B 15/03 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 396—155 [396/322; 348/239; 348/371] | 14 Claims |
| 1. A digital camera, comprising:
an image sensor that converts subject image information into an image signal and outputs the image signal; and
a flash circuit for emitting flash light, wherein the image sensor has a first image capture mode in which a first image signal
having a relatively large number of pixels captured at a relatively low sensitivity is output, and a second image capture
mode in which a second image signal having a relatively small number of pixels captured at a relatively high sensitivity is
output, the digital camera further comprising:
an image capture control circuit that performs an operation for capturing and outputting the second image signal in the second
image capture mode without emission of flash light by the flash circuit and an operation for capturing and outputting the
first image signal in the first image capture mode with emission of flash light by the flash circuit; and
an image combining circuit that combines the first image signal and the second image signal after resizing a number of pixels
of at least one image signal of the first image signal and the second image signal.
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